Example sentences of "[been] the [noun] that [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has long been the case that the fact of winning is far more important than the manner of doing so , and since they have found a winning formula they have a powerful argument for keeping it , especially now that the financial rewards are considerable . |
| 2 | Perhaps the most appealing has been the idea that the deficit is really not as large as the official figures suggest ( because of gross inadequacies in the data ) . |
| 3 | The guiding principle of that research has been the idea that the personality differences partly reflect underlying physiological differences in the brain , each person having a characteristic temperamental make-up that is represented at the biological level as a ‘ type of nervous system ’ . |
| 4 | When American or British real interest rates have exceeded Japanese or German ones , the main reason has been the risk that the dollar or pound will fall in value against the yen and D-mark . |
| 5 | In addition to the ignorance and naiveté at Westminster has been the assumption that the region is expendable in the wider context of Westminster politics . |
| 6 | The second development has been the assumption that the meaning of the term unreasonable used by Lord Greene M.R. should govern whenever that word appears within a statute . |
| 7 | Clearly , behind the appeals for calm has been the fear that the army is now threatened by disintegration , something that has become evident in increasingly frank discussions . |
| 8 | Also encouraging has been the fact that a row with America over government procurement , which threatened to spill over into tit-for-tat sanctions , was averted at the last minute . |